As a community, we’ll decide what to do with one of the last pieces of large, city-owned property in an already over-developed Mission Valley.

As a member of the SDSU West Steering Committee and a past president of the SDSU Alumni Association, I can tell you a “park-first” plan like that described in others’ letters is possible under SDSU West, impossible under SoccerCity.

The SDSU West plan is just one concept. The initiative requires a competition and unlike SoccerCity, competitors will have to go through an open and very public planning process.